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[ spin-ee ]
/ ˈspɪn i /
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noun, plural spin·neys. British.

a small wood or thicket.

Words related to spinney

thicket, scrub, shrubbery, undergrowth, grove, cover, coppice, hedge, copse, dingle, sedge, underwood, brushwood, fern, gorse, bracken, chaparral, orchard, covert, woodland

Words nearby spinney

spinnaker, spinnbarkeit, spinner, spinneret, spinnery, spinney, spinning, spinning box, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinning mule

Origin of spinney

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French espinei (masculine), espinaie (feminine) a place full of thorns, derivative of espine spine; compare Late Latin spīnētum difficulty, equivalent to Latin spīn(a) thorn (see spine) + -ētum noun suffix (see arboretum)
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British Dictionary definitions for spinney

spinney
/ (ˈspɪnɪ) /

noun

mainly British a small wood or copse

Word Origin for spinney

C16: from Old French espinei, from espine thorn, from Latin spīna
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